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

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

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

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.