The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

There is always time for failure

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

Without struggle there is no progress.

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.