You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.