To say goodbye is to die a little.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.