Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

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

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

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.'

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

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

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.