All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.