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.

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

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.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

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

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

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