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

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

I was always a self-conscious person.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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

Wonder is our need today, not information.