Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

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

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.