“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”

“Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski şi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.”

“Când asculţi pe Bach, vezi cum se înfiripă Dumnezeu. Căci muzica lui este generatoare de Divinitate.”

“Bach este un alt cuvânt pentru sublim şi cuvântul propriu pentru consolare. Muzica divină ne închide singură pleoapele. Ochii nu pot vedea decât pământul.”

“Magnificat de Bach. Remué jusqu'aux larmes. Il est impossible que ce qui s'y exprime n'ait qu'une réalité subjective. L'« âme » doit être de la même essence que l'absolu. Et c'est le Vedânta qui a raison.”

“Nobody would dare look at himself in the mirror, because a grotesque, tragic image would mix in the contours of his face with stains and traces of blood, wounds which cannot be healed, and unstoppable streams of tears. I would experience a kind of voluptuous awe if I could see a volcano of blood, eruptions as red as fire and as burning as despair, burst into the midst of the comfortable and superficial harmony of everyday life, or if I could see all our hidden wounds open, making of us a bloody eruption forever. Only then would we truly understand and appreciate the advantage of loneliness, which silences our suffering and makes it inaccessible. The venom drawn out from suffering would be enough to poison the whole world in a bloody eruption, bursting out of the volcano of our being. There is so much venom, so much poison, in suffering!”

“True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.”