“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”

“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”

“I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”