In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

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

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.