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.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

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.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

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

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.