My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.