“Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations.”

“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”

“It's not where you begin, it's where you end.”

“...but what is vibrato if not a breaking down of the rigid divisions between pitches, a temporary ending of our sundered musical segmentation; we evoke the deepest and richest of our feelings by bending tones between the line spectrum of the Western scale, by ending its divisiveness; we locate what is most human in between, where we are no longer quantized, constrained...”