All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven... The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so... Live life so well!

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

True love has no object. It is a state of being.

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.