“I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ”

“I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition." (Said to Leopold Mozart)”

“Karena Tuhan memberi saya hati yang riang,Ia akan memaafkan saya karena saya berbakti kepadaNya dengan jiwa yang riang.”

“Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”

“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.”

“I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.”

“[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.”