"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
