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- Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler
- To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo