Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places. ' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage. . . When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.
I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.
Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.