People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]

The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Let us try what love will do.