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.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.