They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.