„They’re all deserting me. I’ve been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!“
— Harriet Tubman
„Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„I found out that Hollywood is more crooked, dumber, crueler, stupider than all the books I've read about it. They didn't go deeply enough into how it lacks art, and soul, and heart— how it's really a piece of crap. There are too many hands directing, there're too many fingers in the pot, and they're all kind of ignorant about what they're doing. They're greedy, and they're vicious. So you don't get much of a movie.“
— Charles Bukowski