To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

Your gift will make a place for you in the world

CAME" - Crownless Ambition Must Emerge - Genereux Philip

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.