Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

Ignoring a question is as equivalent to ignoring a person.

...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

I should be concentrating on writing pages.