To Write A Symphony Is, For Me,

You Must Renounce All Superficiality, All Convention, All Vanity And Delusion.

Both My Marriages Were Failures! Number One Departed, And Number Two Stayed

Never Let Oneself Be Guided By The Opinion Of One's Contemporaries. Continue Steadfastly On One's Way.

That Which Draws Us By Its Mystical Force; What Every Created Thing, Even The Very Stones, Feels With Absolute Certainty As The Center Of Its Being... Is The Force Of Love. Christians Call This "eternal Blessedness." It Is A Necessity Of Man For Growth And Joy.

Tradition Is Not The Worship Of Ashes, But The Preservation Of Fire.