Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

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.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.