Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.