Living is like tearing through a museum.
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.
I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness