If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.