“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”

“Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited. ”

“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do”

“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.”

“Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of his *ordo amoris*, values which have not yet been sh...”

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”