Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets.

I always love a side of guacamole with everything.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.