William Goldman Quotes

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Love is many things none of them logical.

When I was your age, television was called books.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

Is this a kissing book?

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I write out of revenge.

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

The enemy is always in the mind.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

There is no room in my body for anything but you.