For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

I think it's important to always offer something new.