You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

I live my daydreams in music.