Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Always walk as if you’re running late, it’s healthier.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Trying will do anything in this world.