Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Rule no man than yourself.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Hillary Clinton is going to make sure that Americans are safe at home and abroad.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.