Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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.