Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.