I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another