I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Astrophysics. 'It's a super-long shot' is practically the motto of our profession.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth