Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night wh…

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Quicquid Venus imperat Labor est suavis, que nunquam in cordibus habitat ignavis.

'Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.'

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.