“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”