People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

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

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.