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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.