Vladimir Nabokov

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.