I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

I don't have many easy songs.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.