Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.