I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.