This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

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

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

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.