I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

My Taiwanese parents came to America with no money and supported my brothers and me as small business owners in Orange County, which is close to L.A. but about as far away from Hollywood as you can be.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

I'm proud of doing well at school and if there'd been any money I would have gone to college.

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.