If You're Not Tough It's

[as A Screenwriter] I Have A Sense Of Exile From Thought, A Nostalgia Of The Quiet Room And Balanced Mind. I Am A Writer, And There Comes A Time When That Which I Write Has To Belong To Me, Has To Be Written Alone And In Silence, With No One Looking Over My Shoulder, No One Telling Me A Better Way To Write It. It Doesn't Have To Be Great Writing, It Doesn't Even Have To Be Terribly Good. It Just Has To Be Mine.

Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go Who Is Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid

The Most Durable Thing In Writing Is Style, And Style Is The Single Most Valuable Investment A Writer Can Make With His Time.

As Honest As You Could Expect A Man To Be In A World Where It's Out Of Style.

Courage Is A Strange Thing: One Can Never Be Sure Of It