I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.