“All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.”

He has a heart of gold – only harder.

When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too.

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.

Aren’t grown up people just little children at heart?

I’m a Red-baiter; I’m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

I didn’t feel self conscious ’cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.