I beg you most humbly to go on loving me just a little and to make do with these poor congratulations until I get some new drawers made for my small … - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I write as a sow pisses.

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

The only thing — I tell you this straight from the heart — that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people — and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not — but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes — bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.