I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend ten shillings on a hotel.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

The better the actor the more stupid he is.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

The serious artist . . . is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He’s obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I only know how true it is: that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.