That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.