T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

I think music is another language.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.