The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

You're alive! Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.

It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around. And this last decade, the '90s, has been a period of very low talent.

Have fun storming the castle!

Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday if I work with enough care if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.

Understand this: all the sleaze you've heard about Hollywood? All the illiterate scumbags who scuttle down the corridors of power? They are there, all right, and worse than you can imagine.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior
experience, all the years, were a preparation for ... nothing.

You build bridges, John. You have to go where the rivers are.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate.