A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.
A song is a poem set to music.
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.