I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.

I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.

Pleasure is a thief to business.

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.