Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

I write music with an exclamation point!

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.