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

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

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.

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

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

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

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