Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

There’s only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.

Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.