I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.
Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.
So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?