I take every job on its merits.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.