"My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there."

“'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.”

“Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org

“Charity is love; not all love is charity.”

“In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.”

“People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.”

Source : "Born on the Fourth of July". www.imdb.com. 1989.

“Arithmetic is the death of story.”

Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.248, Macmillan

“I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.”

“Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?”

Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8