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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 him.

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.

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

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, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Don't touch me

Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.