You can never trust what you read.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Nobody knows anything.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

You can never trust what you read.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

Flaws would not only bring death but far worse humiliation.

In Hollywood no one knows anything.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Trust, but verify.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I don't really trust a sane person.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Disarmament requires trust.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.