They thought I bore a grudge and now I was going to get even with them,

He says he'd like to have made a true Western. He said his were kind of fantasies ... so you couldn't really believe them, but you could be entertained by them.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Use it or lose it. I'm using what's left of my mind and I enjoy it very much and it seems to keep my mind productive.

The Beverly Hillbillies: Volume One