"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone--just writing."

I have been second to Jo my whole life in everything. And I will not be the person you settle for just because you cannot have her.

若你想从不被批评，那务必不要尝试新事物。

——《民族主义第一讲》

作曲家的传记写在他的乐谱中，而不是在他的信件或日记里。

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!