True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.
Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
But I'm lost when it comes to you.
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.
Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.
My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.
. . . the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.