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

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

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

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