“Love or not, I wouldn’t subject a wife to the road. It’s punishment.”

I’m not fit company for man or beast.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That’s when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

In order to play and write, it’s unique – you either do one or the other.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.