Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.