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

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

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

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

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.