Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

If you simply love the Universe, the Universe can't help but love you straight back!

Women are extraordinary creatures!

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

Handshakes and hugs will always trump likes and shares.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any media to get information about games, so I came up with Game Freak magazine.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.