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.

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

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

An artist is his own fault.

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.