I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.
Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.
Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.
The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.
What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.
Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.