Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
It pays to be a fee fiend.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.