I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.