The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.