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.

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.

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.

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

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

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

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