"I am a very emotional man, but I do not show it."

"Hurry? I have no time to hurry."

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

"That is why I compulsively let myself be carried away by external commitments."

"I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya."