"Lord only knows how many times I would go to the Grand Ole Opry, not to be seen, I'd hide behind the curtains so that I could understand their kind of comedy. To understand what the artists were doing. After a while, it became a habit, and people knew I was doing it. They'd say, 'Come on over and talk to us, Sam.'"
“The most rewarding thing for me was sitting in the office with George Burns as a person, not a boss or anything. He was a collaborator, and he made us feel that way. ‘Hi ya boys- I don’t know about you guys I’m going to the club.’ I loved him.”
"As a writer, I found that there’s nothing in my life that I like more than taking an idea and turning it from an abstraction to something that is concrete."