Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?