Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Fashions in sin change.