I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows ….

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do..

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely..

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth..

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck..

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents..

In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interpo….

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile..

Cheese. The adult form of milk..

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of th….

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctor….

What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly i….