Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

- Budd Schulberg

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

- Budd Schulberg

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

- Budd Schulberg

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

- Budd Schulberg

You can't eat your friends and have them too

- Budd Schulberg

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

- Budd Schulberg

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

- Budd Schulberg

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the soc…

- Budd Schulberg

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

- Budd Schulberg