I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.