We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

No being can make another one happy.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.