It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

God has given us memories that we may have roses in December.

I cannot resist ordering them. The words are so lovely to say.

The poet:who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world.

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, a…

My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street an…