I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"