This person was so much more special and wonderful inside than he knew. He had always belonged in the light with me, no matter how lost in the dark he felt.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

My greatest joy comes from teaching.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.