I was always a self-conscious person.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.