But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.