Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

What gets measured gets improved.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not.

Benevolence is often very peremptory.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

Alright, manly man,” he says. “Go prove that you’re a man.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'