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.

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.

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

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

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

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

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