“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

What is life like, wherever we travel? A wild goose, leaving footprints on the snow.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.