There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.