Art is the signature of civilizations.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.