The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

Love others as much as you can, as often as you can, and as deeply as you can. Never forget to love yourself.

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

Love is a sacred silence.