Self-plagiarism is style.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Your best side? My dear, you're sitting on it.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was not the desire to imitate, but th…

I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I sai…