Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.