Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.