The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

She bit me. She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her...She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart." Richard mason

A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.