There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

If we go now, there's no coming back. You're mine all night." Her eyes flashed. "Promise?" That was it. Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her off the dance floor, toward the main entrance of the tent.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.