Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.