He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

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

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.