An idea is salvation by imagination.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.