Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

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.

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.

In music the present is extended.

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

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