Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

I like your anger, ' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.