There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

California, the department store state.