"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."

"We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product."

"My golf is woeful but I will never surrender."

"There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other."

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."