Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
Love is a hole in the heart.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.