"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it"

“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”

“I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!”

Source : Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.womenshealthmag.com. March 9, 2010.

“But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.”

Source : Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

“Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.”

“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

“In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'”

“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it”

“It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.”