If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

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.

Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.