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.

All the world loves a clown.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

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

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

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