Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.
I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.