It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.