Music is love in search of a voice.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.