There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.