What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

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

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.