Quotes by William Goldman

“I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.”

“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and thats never going to stop.”

“Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of ba...”

“Is this a kissing book?”

“No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist t...”

“The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and stea...”

“It's my letter," she began. "I cannot make it right.""Come in, come in," the Prince said gently. "Maybe we can help you." She sat down in the same chair as before. "All right, I'll close my eyes an...”

“[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing ...”

“I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”

“Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every priorexperience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.”

“That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I.”

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

“I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”

“Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.”

“This book says 'life isn't fair' and I'm telling you, one and all, you betterbelieve it. I got a fat spoiled sonhe's not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he's always gonna be fat, evenif he gets skinn...”

“It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died.Long time.”

“Love is many things, none of them logical.”

“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.”

“Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he...”

“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”