Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

There is light somewhere.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.