Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.