It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.