“Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life?”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”
“Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”
“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.”
“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”