Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
I keep things pretty simple.
I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.
I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.
When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally. . . taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.
I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.