You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?