An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.
Hate is usually a more compelling motive than love.
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
I have a secret passion for mercy... but justice is what keeps happening to people.
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.
If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us.
If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.
Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.
Money costs too much.
Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.
People are trying so hard to live through their children. And the children keep trying so hard to live up to their parents, or live them down. Everybody's living through or for or against somebody else. It doesn't make too much sense, and it isn't working too well.
Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.
Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.
There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns- different states, if possible- and write each other letters once a year.
Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
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