I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi . . .

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.