Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.