I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

We ain't alone in this universe.We just don't wanna be disturbed.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.