An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.