A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.