"I am not afraid of anything, except boredom."

"I never compose anything that I don't thoroughly understand."

"He was a six and a half foot scowl."

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."

"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."