If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface o….

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 an….

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts..

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

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded a….

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the….

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's….

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender..

The end-of-summer winds make people restless..

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs..

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a….

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us..

You put your time where your priority is..

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed….

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous..

It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my ….

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

People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right wo….

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you..

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it..