I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves. . . a good boxer is an artist. . . Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.
Love is lovelier The second time around.
I don't write songs, songs write me. . . . Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. . . . The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.