The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

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

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

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.

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.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.