A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

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.