There's nothing as real as money.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

the horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.