What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

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.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.