Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

how much does a thought weigh?

A man's a man for a' that!

All good art is an indiscretion.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations.