I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

No, enjoy it while you can.” Esther said as she walked out alone.

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.