I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.