An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.