The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

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

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

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

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.