“I think loyalty is required if you’re gonna make it. I don’t mean make it like fame or praise: Some rotten and disloyal people have gotten famous and praised. I mean making it like living fully and happily. If you can’t stand by people, you get what my father called green guts. You know? Rotten, spoiled guts. Inner death. You walk the long walk with your friends, your colleagues. You’re around.”—Ruth Gordon/Interview with James Grissom/1984.
Photograph, from 1976, by Jack Mitchell.