In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.