Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

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.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

I was raised on NBC television.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.