It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

I want to ripoff your logic and make passionate sense to you.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.