A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.