All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.