"Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering."

“A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.”

“By nature I'm not a brooder.”

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .”

“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.184, Faber & Faber

“I made the decision. I'm accountable.”

Source : "Live From..." with Tony Harris, edition.cnn.com. March 21, 2005.

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

“The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.”