Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

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

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

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.

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.

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