"While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented."

“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.

“There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.”

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One”, p.75, A&C Black

“I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.”

“Nine people can't make a baby in a month.”

“I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity”

“What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.”

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”