“The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.”

There’s a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called “Sketch Book”; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

I’m happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to – I’m very aware that that’s a privilege.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

I’m not much of a storyteller with words!

I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.