Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

There are so many cities in every single city.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.