I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.