All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.