In music the present is extended.
There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.