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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky
Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.