No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
“My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
“Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.”