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

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.

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

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

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

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

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.