In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

Of course, western is my native music.

You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure!

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom