"I have a great love for music, and I believe it is the language of the soul."

"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"I am a very proud man, and I hate to be pitied."

"I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."