“How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?”

“We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.”

“They say the road to happiness is a long one, but I was afraid I'd run out of gas before I arrived.”

“A scientist places an ad in a Paris newspaper offering a free horoscope. He receives about 150 replies, each, as requested, detailing a place and time of birth. Every respondent is then sent the identical horoscope, along with a questionnaire asking how accurate the horoscope had been. Ninety-four per cent of the respondents (and 90 per cent of their families and friends) reply that they were at least recognizable in the horoscope. However, the horoscope was drawn up for a French serial killer. If an astrologer can get this far without even meeting his subjects, think how well someone sensitive to human nuances and not overly scrupulous might do.”

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”