I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

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.'

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

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.