All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

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

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.