Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.