To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.