How you feel about marrying me?" he asked in my ear.

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

A good leader must be fair.