there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.