I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.