Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.