“Music is the poetry of the air.”

“I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false”

“Look at her," said a pert little dinoflagellate with a perfectly smooth protein coat. "Look at her with her nose up in the air, refusing to divide.”

“From the moment you are born and you take your first breath, you begin to die.”

“Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between those two points is the journey.”

“To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.”

“A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.”