"Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified."

“Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.”

“We must make working life more human.”

“I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling of like, I've never been to another place like it. It doesn't even feel Californian. Even how it's laid out physically, it's very strange. Like, the weather patterns don't make sense. They do scientifically, but in a practical way it doesn't make any sense. And that weirdness, it really creates some weird thing in the air. But it is you know, on a practical level, it's very expensive, and it's a very business-oriented place, too, and there's a lot of that stuff going on.”

“Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.”

“In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

“Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.”

“I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.