You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Applause waits on success.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

But love isn't quantifiable on paper.

Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.