Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.