One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

I'm a very boring person.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.