I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

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

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.