A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.