It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor. There isn't anything that pays you as well as acting while you …

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

You have long known what I have tried to establish: the right to dare everything; yet the difficulty I have had finding enough money to live on has been too gr…