Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.