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 alw….

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized..

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety..

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..

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty..

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product..

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing..

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract o….

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat..

I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy….

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence..

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. Th….

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head..

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writ….

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are..

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle..

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them..

Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. ….

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...….

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, wo….

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the….