A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

Love is a flame of light.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.