Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.