...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.