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No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they’re always going to criticize you.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.