If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.