“Every man has two counties--his own and America.”
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
“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".”
“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.”