Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.