I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.