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

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

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.

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