If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.