....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.

Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Immitation is suicide.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.