Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

Pot always just made me sleepy.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.