I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.