“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.”

“Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.”

“But an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Suppose that one assessed the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, put into formulas; how absurd such a 'scientific' assessment of music would be! What would one have comprehended, understood, known about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing of what is really 'music' in it!”

“At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.”

“Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”

“Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.”