“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”

“It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.”

“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”

“Hollow then produced Kobel’s tax returns for the past three years.When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, “Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind.”“That’s debatable,” said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.”

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”

“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”

“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.”