Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.