The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.