[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.