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

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.