To seek, always to seek... (Tolstoy's final words).

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

I fear Tolstoy's death. His death would leave a large empty space in my life. First, I have loved no man the way I have loved him. I am not a believer, but of …

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives have a mystic…

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.