I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.