Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.