Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.