“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.”

“I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.”

“The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

“Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction”

“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”

“Do spirals end? Or just get so tiny your eyes can’t follow any more?”