In music the present is extended.

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

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.

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.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

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.