In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

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

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.