I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.