How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

Only bad writers think they're good.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

I find Donald Trump so haphazard, and that keeps me up at night.