A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.