I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

The atmosphere of a date is everything.

We have to be extremely careful in the manner which we live life.

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.