“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.”
“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”
“Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the dominance of panegyrics and eulogies as an art form, etc.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”