He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
If I can fool a bug. . . I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to make: a very talky film of people and ideas about our contemporary state with regard to relationships, marriage, sex, and romance. I started trying to educate myself about filmmaking.
It feels so great to be back on the scene.
My genius is in my nostrils.