Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.