Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

When the last leaf falls, what will die within us?

I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.