Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.