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

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.