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

I’m not fit company for man or beast.

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

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

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.

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.