The forest, like a casino, always wins. That's why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty.

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

L.A.'s always been good to me.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.