Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

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

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.

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

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

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

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.