The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.