The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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.