When the egoism becomes zero

Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.

Forever and an InstantForever and an instant met up one day, had a short but lovely talk, then each went on its way.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.

L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.