People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry..

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them..

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman..

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole..

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be ….

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare..

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing..

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be….

There is a need for heroism in American life today..

A woman who is loved always has success..

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace..

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigge….

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings..

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude..

He who does not move with the times is a dead man.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall..

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night ….

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY..

To be a Jew is a destiny.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life..

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning..