“It's only words... unless they're true.”

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”

“Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking about ones problems for x hours a week, be sufficient to bring one to a state of normalcy?The genius ...”

“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the...”

“What is our life: (Pause.) its looking forward or its looking back. And thats our life. Thats it. Where is the moment?”

“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something thats hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think...”

“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”

“In Hollywood, no one knows anything.”

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“Well,said Ernest, by some strange coincidence I know this story.Boddichek was not good at irony. I knew that there was that possibility, he said, but we have a great new way to treat it, and I thou...”