Compose first, worry later.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

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.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.