I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world..

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever ….

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both..

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than th….

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel..

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - b….

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonw….

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Chris….

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls a….

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 hi….

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain..

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity….