Love Is Born Of Faith, Lives On

A Man Only Becomes Wise When He Begins To Calculate The Approximate Depth Of His Ignorance.

Melody Is A Form Of Remembrance. It Must Have A Quality Of Inevitability In Our Ears.

Waiting And Hoping Are The Whole Of Life, And As Soon As A Dream Is Realized It Is Destroyed.

Any Subject Is Good For Opera If The Composer Feels It So Intently He Must Sing It Out.

Hell Begins On The Day When God Grants Us A Clear Vision Of All That We Might Have Achieved, Of All The Gifts Which We Have Wasted, Of All That We Might Have Done Which We Did Not Do.