I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

My music is not lovely.

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.