There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty damn quick.