If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
What’s life without a little challenge?
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
