In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
“My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.”
“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”