The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.

The past is always changing. Every time we remember something, we alter it slightly, until eventually, our memories become stories we tell ourselves.

The individual is the only reality. The further we move away from the individual toward abstract ideas about Homo sapiens, the more likely we are to fall into error.

Did you grow me as food, and that’s why I have no memory?

Every hour, she thinks, someone forges the rings, someone carves the cradle, someone loses the war.