When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

Body odor is the window to the soul.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.