The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.