... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms.

Something is monitoring the planet. And they are monitoring it very cautiously.

I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.