Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Good fathers make good sons

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.