Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.