It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist