The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life