All men of action are dreamers.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Judge tenderly of me.

Take calculated risks.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

Could be worse... Could be raining

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.