To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

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

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.