“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud”
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
“I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.”
“The strings all soar,The reeds implore, The brasses roar with notes galore.It's music that we all adoreIt's what we go to concerts for.”