Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.