We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.

Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception.One falls in itTo deceive the other

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.