<p>Science is the poetry of reality.</p>
<p>God is a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser$$$ a misogynistic$$$ homophobic racist$$$ an infanticidal$$$ genocidal$$$ phillicidal$$$ pestilential$$$ megalomaniacal$$$ sadomasochistic$$$ capriciously malevolent bully.</p>
<p>Lovers alone wear sunlight.</p>
<p>Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.</p>
<p>Be here. Be present. Wherever you are$$$ be there.</p>
<p>The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: Is this just a good piece of clockwork$$$ or does it actually tell time?</p>
<p>One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo.</p>
<p>If I cannot move heaven$$$ I will raise hell.</p>
<p>Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.</p>
<p>Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?</p>