Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Deliberate often - decide once.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.