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?

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

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

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.

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

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

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.