Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.

The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours.

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.