I Do Not Want Horses Or Diamonds

Treasures Are No Longer To Be Got By Instrumental Art.

I Cannot Be So Bad When Everybody Is So Fond Of Me.

You Appear In The Novelletten In Every Possible Circumstance, In Every Irresistible Form... They Could Only Be Written By One Who Knows Such Eyes As Yours And Has Touched Such Lips As Yours.

Why Hurry Over Beautiful Things? Why Not Linger And Enjoy Them?

Composing Gives Me Great Pleasure... There Is Nothing That Surpasses The Joy Of Creation, If Only Because Through It One Wins Hours Of Self-forgetfulness, When One Lives In A World Of Sound.