No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

can only write about what bites you.