Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.