A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.