I have a really low boredom threshold.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

Reading begets reading.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.