I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.