Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.