My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
To err is human, to forgive supine.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star. '
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small. " And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.