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

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

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

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

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

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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

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

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

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.

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

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

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

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The German mass murder of the Jews ... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

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

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

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

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Love is a hole in the heart.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

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