When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
“That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.”
“I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.”