The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.