My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.