A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.