I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.