Ira Levin quotes

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

#Travel #Tourists #Needs

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.
-- Ira Levin

#Thinking #Knowing #Important

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.
-- Ira Levin

#Confession #Said #Subjects

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.
-- Ira Levin

#Real #Nice #Wife

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
-- Ira Levin

#Royalty #Checks

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
-- Ira Levin

#Magazines #Gothic #Scene

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.
-- Ira Levin

#Growing Up #Father #Thinking

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
-- Ira Levin

#White #Guy #House

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.
-- Ira Levin

#Real #Nice #Wife

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.