Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

Assumptions made by others indicates clearly how much people envy your blessings.

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you conquer despair, no deeper pit remains to trap you.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Sometimes you get lost and you find something new.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.