An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

I always liked spy stories.