Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound …

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Something I was not aware had happened suddenly turned out not to have happened.