The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.