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

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.