“Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.”
“Their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.”
“While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.”
“It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.”
“I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false”
“Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a false note.”