Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

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

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.

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.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

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.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.