It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.