Lillian Hellman

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.