Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.