The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.