Everyone needs an editor.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

I do not have more information after reading a poem

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.