Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State