To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.