“After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.”

“Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.”

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

“The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.”

“The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”