I am fond of music, I think, because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn’t. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us."

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."