There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

As a physician, we heal by sharing our bestowed power of knowledge, love, and compassion.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.