The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.