The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

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.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid