Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.