When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Music is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.