Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun.