Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.