Plays occasionally, and plays well, too; but he's so erratic it's difficult to get him to do it.

Everything must be just so, you know--air, light, piano, and audience.

He's got another book out, I'm told--a profound treatise on somebody's something or other--musical, of course." "And he used to write music; doesn't he do that any more ?" "I believe so.

I hear of it occasionally through musical friends of mine.

They even play it to me sometimes.