It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.