Quotes from Ira Levin

Wszystko, o czym mówisz, wszystko, o czym myÅ›lisz, byÅ'o ju? kiedyÅ› powiedziane i pomyÅ›lane. I wprowadzone w czyn. KilkanaÅ›cie razy.

Even if he hadn't given it to me, you don't throw away another person's books. If I want to read something, I want to read it.

My te? musimy wypeÅ'ni? nasze zadanie, co oznacza miÄ™dzy innymi pilne oglÄ…danie telewizji i Å›mier? w wieku 62 lat. A caÅ'a wolno??, o której mo?emy marzy?, to fajka, parÄ™ dowcipów i trochÄ™ nadprogramowego pieprzenia. Nie tra?my tego, co mamy, dobrze?

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

That's what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That's what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

You are only partly alive.

could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

A chance to sit quietly and find out who you are; where you've been and where you're going.

When you're older you'll come to realize that acts of kindness are few and far between in this world of ours.

What's the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands?

Sex, yes; sexism, no.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase," he said as he double-locked their door, "is a tourist, not a traveler.

They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.

A false-hearted lover is worse than a thief. For a thief will just rob you and take what you have, But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave. And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust; Not one boy in a hundred a poor girl can trust.

Bread now, or cake later

Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.

That green stuff outside is grass, and the yellow stuff coming down on it is sunshine.

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.