Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

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

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.