When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. - Jean Cocteau

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.