We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

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.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.