James Thurber

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.