I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

You trivialize time when you don’t know what to do with it.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.