If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.