Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."