You sleep okay, sweetie?” “Miss my teddy, ” Billie replied. Personally, I thought Detective Mitch Lawson was far superior to a tiny pink teddy bear but I wasn’t six years old.

Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.

Be enthusiastic.

Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.