Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

To be without supernatural infusion of divine love and light is to have lost the glory

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.