Embrace love

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

Mind and soul both exists in thoughts. Then how can you call them separate.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?