"A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies."

"When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on."

"I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it."

"Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it."

"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."

"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."

"I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation."