Experience is a form of paralysis.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.