I Am Not Thoughtless But Am Prepared

I Choose Such Notes That Love One Another.

Now Let The Matter Rest As It Is, Or As It May Be, What Avail Useless Speculations? What Is To Occur We Do Not Know; Still In So Far We Do! What God Wills!

I Write [music] As A Sow Piddles.

It Is A Mistake To Think That The Price Of My Art Has Become Easy To Me.

All I Insist On, And Nothing Else, Is That You Should Show The Whole World That You Are Not Afraid. Be Silent, If You Choose; But When It Is Necessary, Speak—and Speak In Such A Way That People Will Remember It.