Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.