You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.