People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.