Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Simplicity not simplistic.
My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear. '
England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.
The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.