Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.
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.