Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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

Compose first, worry later.

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

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.