“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

“Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.”

“According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their liveswere s...”

“It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.”

“I don't care how impossible it seems.”

“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.”

“Without work, we die daily.”

“In suffering a man must search for his Maker.”

“Live daringly.”

“He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There w...”

“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You...”

“If you dont see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”