"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."

"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration."

"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."

"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."

"My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything."

"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."

"My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen."