Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.