"God will forgive me that's his business."

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."

"For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play."

"The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will."

"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."