Ned Rorem — American Composer born on October 23, 1923,

Ned Rorem is an American composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976... (wikipedia)

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.