Richard Wagner

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push an antidepressant at you. We need to walk through our grief, not medicate it and shove it under the carpet like it wasn't there.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Imagination creates reality.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: __ hardly move, yet far I seem to have come_, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: __ou see, my son, time turns here into space