Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

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!

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

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