When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out

I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of the old country. All my German relatives lived in New York City, and we used to visit frequently.

There are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire