If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment. . . rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
Perfection can be a fetish
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinkingfeeling through a subject.
If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.