America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!

That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it.

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.