Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.