Walking and talking - that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon. - Aldous Huxley

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.