Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. - Arthur Miller

...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife, the children — everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is — shopping. Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn’t know what to do with himself — he’d go to church, start a revolution — something. Today you’re unhappy? Can’t figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping....
...If they would close the stores for six months in this country there would be from coast to coast a regular massacre.

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography — proper work for tired artists — but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies — they know better.