“Appa has feelings, too!”

“Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?”

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. ”

“She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.”

“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”