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.

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

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

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.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

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

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.