"I have never thought of writing for renown and glory. What I have in my heart must out; that is why I write."

"A musician is a musician because he lives the music. Not just plays it. But lives it. And if he doesn't live it, he is nothing."

"Ah how could I possibly admit such an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others[?]"

"It is the artist's mission to penetrate to the heart of things."

"What is good must be good already in the first draft."