Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

- William Goldman

I write out of revenge.

- William Goldman

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

- William Goldman

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

- William Goldman

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess…

- William Goldman

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

- William Goldman

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

- William Goldman

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

- William Goldman

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

- William Goldman