"Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up."

“New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.”

“I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.”

“A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.”

“As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through illegal or dangerous means.”

“On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.”

“Man proposes, and God disposes.”

Source : "Orlando Furioso". Poem by Ludovico Ariosto. Canto XLVI, stanza 35, 1532.

“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”

Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.

“The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.”