"There's nothing as real as money."

"I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth."

"All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years."

"I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture."

"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."