If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.