Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

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!

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

You cannot lose your real treasure.

What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.