 There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. |
| Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. |
| If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. |
| All good art is an indiscretion. |
| The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. |
| The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! |
| To be free is to have achieved your life. |
| Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. |
| Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. |
| A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. |
| Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. |
| Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. |
| Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. |
| All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. |
| Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. |
| Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. |
| The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? |
| You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. |
| In memory everything seems to happen to music. |
| Luck is believing you're lucky. |
