We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about - and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

I'm glad you like adverbs - I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I still, in presence of life... have reactions - as many as possible... It's, I suppose, because I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an…

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire - Come o…

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.