Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

It takes two to make an accident.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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

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.