Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.