You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
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.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.