Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

Focus on the denouement of the purpose of life and act on the narrative.

Obey, love and serve the Lord with all your quintessence.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

People feel the need to compare because that's how they're going to put it in some box. We're always putting things in boxes to know what it is and how to describe it.

Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.