Thomas Mann

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.