So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

History is not was, it is.

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

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.