I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Time is chasing after all of us.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.