In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Don't think I'm not incoheret.

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

The real things about man are not his body.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?