A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Your opinions are your symptoms.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.