Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.