If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.