Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

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.

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.

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.'

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

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