I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
In a major matter no details are small.
What is necessary is never a risk.
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.
Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.