Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I've played everything but the harp.

The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.