The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.