It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Art is the escape from personality.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.