Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.

She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.