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

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.