The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of….

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people..

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been en….

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age..

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of ….

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony..

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence..

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it..

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away..

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the wor….

Love is a hole in the heart..

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly….

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass..

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a r….

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos..

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links..

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..

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley..

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace..

I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction ma….

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the a….