Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

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.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

The greatest gift that you can give anyone is your pure love.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.