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

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.

The fishhook catches the fish

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

From the moment of birth, folks suddenly wanted what others said they could not have. Kids craved the most sugary sweets how alcoholics thirsted for one more drink with the most impactful punch.

Dear World, I exist.Deal with it.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.