Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.