“But his big, round music, after all, is too breathy to last.”

“And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.”

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”

“Or music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, but you are the musicWhile the music lasts.”

“music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.”

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”