At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
Journalism is less addictive than communism.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.