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

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.

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

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

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.