I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

Museums, I love museums.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

In this so called high-society there is value of a dress but not of a person.So give me less food but give me on a big table.

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.