Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

Simplicity is the final achievement.