In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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

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 magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.

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.