I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.