We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

Being me is funny. I've made this weird character, and I think it's really funny.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.