I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.