“The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high s...” — Terry Teachout Quote

“The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.”

“Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.”

“Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.”

“I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.”

“Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.”

“The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.”