Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.