In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.