Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?