Quotes

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all . . . 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.

I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories.

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

It's not Hollywood's fault. The writer is not accustomed to money. It goes to his head and destroys him.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.