I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.