You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

... vulgarity has no nation.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.