To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality.

To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!