It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Your daily product determines how far you go

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Everybody's an art critic.

Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

There's no such thing as a person who has to go away.