What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Accomplish something every day of your life.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.