The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.