My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

All music is beautiful.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

Chaos is favorable to creativity.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.