Leon Blum

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.