I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.