Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

In memory everything seems to happen to music.