Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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.

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.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

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

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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