Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.