It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.