Lawrence Durrell Quotes

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers – all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than […]

Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.