I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.