Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
Edward AbbeyAnd if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
Edward AbbeyIt is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
Edward Abbey