Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.