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

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.

I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

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.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

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

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