"Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."

"All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."

"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

"Experience is making mistakes and learning from them."

"One point has already been proved: Everything that happened once can happen again."