Robertson Davies

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.