The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.