"It is the great mystery of life itself which is at the bottom of all the mysterious language we are obliged to employ concerning it."

"...there is no point to musical analysis at all unless it is 'two-dimensional' – unless one examines the music in terms of what I call its 'Background' and its 'Foreground' . That is to say, the compo…"

"Fans have their own quantified intangibles. They have their own adversity they're going through in their life and the team, and baseball itself, bonds with them in a unique way."

"Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called "objectivity." Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: …"

"Impressionism is at the root of all modern art, because it was the first movement that managed to free itself from preconceived ideas, and because it changed not only the way life was depicted but the…"