“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”

“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.”

“What one man can think, another man can do.”

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.”

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”

“L' amour est comme un sablier, avec le coeur remplir le vide du cerveau”