“Every man has two counties--his own and America.”

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”

“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".”

“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.”

“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”