The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.