I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.