For Many Years Hollywood Held

He Was In Love With Life As An Ant On A Summer Blade Of Grass.

The Rule In The Art World Is: You Cater To The Masses Or You Kowtow To The Elite; You Can't Have Both.

People's Sex Habits Are As Well Known In Hollywood As Their Political Opinions, And Much Less Criticized.

I Haunted Streets, Whorehouses, Police Stations, Courtrooms, Theater Stages, Jails, Saloons, Slums, Madhouses, Fires, Murders, Riots, Banquet Halls And Bookshops. I Ran Everywhere In The City Like A Fly Buzzing In The Works Of A Clock, Tasted More Than Any Fit Belly Could Hold, Learned Not To Sleep, And Buried Myself In A Tick-tock Of Whirling Hours That Still Echo In Me.

I Have Known A Number Of Don Juans Who Were Good Studs And Who Cavorted Between The Sheets Without A Psychiatrist To Guide Them. But Most Of The Busy Love-makers I Knew Were Looking For Masculinity Rather Than Practicing It. They Were Fellows Of Dubious Lust.