An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

Know love. Sow love. Grow love!

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.