An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had