Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.