Time Is A Circus, Always

They're A Symbol Of The Whole Town, Pretending To Fight, Love, Weep And Laugh All The Time - And They're Phonies, All Of Them. And I Head The List...their Phony Hearts Were Dripping With The Milk Of Human Kindness.

The Movies Are One Of The Bad Habits That Corrupted Our Century.of Their Many Sins, I Offer As The Worst Their Effect On The Intellectual Side Of The Nation. It Is Chiefly From That Viewpoint I Write Of Them - As An Eruption Of Trash That Has Lamed The American Mind And Retarded Americans From Becoming A Cultured People.

Socially, A Journalist Ranks Somewhere Between The Madam Of A Whorehouse And A Bartender. But Spiritually He Ranks With Galileo, For He Knows The World Is Round.

Out Of The Seventy Movies I've Written Some Ten Of Them Were Not Entirely Waste Product.

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.