“Where words leave off, music begins.”

“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”

“Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations.”

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

“Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”

“It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.”