Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.