The world is always in movement.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

A cat only has itself.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.