I give dignity second place to expedience.
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
Good music always defeats bad luck
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.