I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.