She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.
I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.