“I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.And of course I was right.”

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”

“I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

“Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.”

“All around me were the noise of the crazy gold-coast city. And this was my Hollywood career - this was my last night in Hollywood, and I was spreading mustard on my lap in back of a parking-lot john.”

“The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.”