“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall.”
“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.”
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”
“never believe that you are anything less then extraordinary.”