I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.