I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.