Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.