I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing.

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Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

Babies don't need a vacation. But I still see them at the beach. It pisses me off.