How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.