All art is someone trying to tell you something.
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's a pretty good track record, but it's not 100%. It is frustrating that, as a screenwriter, I've seen all those movies and they don't exist in the real world. They're juts inside my head and on those pages.
You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.