Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

The more you reason the less you create.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.