I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.