Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

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.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.