22 quotes found
“Creation is much in need of ordering.”
“Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.”
“I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.”
“Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.”
“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”
“We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.”
“We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all thing...”
“Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.”
“The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.”
“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 ...”
“She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.”
“Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.”
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.”
“The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyones desire.”
“Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.”
“He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere”
“It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer ...”
“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 ...”
“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the diff...”
“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that ...”
