People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.