Quote #9950
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Quote #2097
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Quote #12421
What do you take me for, an idiot
Quote #12002
A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed –I well know. For...
Quote #15869
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Quote #5400
The rest is silence.
Quote #1771
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and...
Quote #7372
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man...
Quote #9825
You say that love is nonsense….I tell you it is no such thing. For...
Quote #6044
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few...