The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music is only love looking for words.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.