"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strengt…"

"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune."

"He was a six and a half foot scowl."

"I consider myself a craftsman, not a genius."

"I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya."