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

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

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

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

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.

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

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.