Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself....

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner’s mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in...

We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails wag.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Listen, little boy. In this business, there’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin’ it.

I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

We are helping to make a market of low-income people, but making sure that the market is one these people can participate in, that the costs are affordable. And once they’re online, there is something...

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Once you’re online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into...

There’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin’ it.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with what the families have gone through.

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness;...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director....

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how...

Love is a hole in the heart.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint...