Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

Boys are so much drama.

I'm tired of fighting...

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.