You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.