“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply!”

“The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.”

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.”

“As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.”

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

“Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.”

“Mr. Bass, would you say you fish a lot? Or do you prefer strumming stringed instruments?”