Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara