Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.