In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.