I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I plan to live to be 120!

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.