I feel like I am an example.
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.