Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

With craziness of mind, I have courage to live as I wish.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Everything in my life was luck.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

We will sell no wine before its time.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.