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" You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it. "

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" To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. "

" There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. "

" Life is too short to be miserable. "

Life Is Too Short

" You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. "

" The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. "

" Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. "

" Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. "

" About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. "

" Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. "

" Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. "

" While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. "

" Humor comes from self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. "

" Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. "

" I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. "

" Writers will happen in the best of families. "

" If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. "

" Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. "

" Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. "

" I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact. "

" I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try. "

" Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. "

" Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. "

" I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. "

" I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat. "

" Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. "

" A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. "

" Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women. "

" All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. "