Pierre Bayle

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.