You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

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.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

Inside every human is a story worth sharing. What's your story?

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.