“It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?”

“You can hear one note of a Kate Bush song, or one note of her voice even, and know immediately what it is.”

“And you read your emily dickinson,
And I my robert frost.
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what weve lost.”

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

“There are notes between notes, you know.”

“One of the big things about being a man, she'd noted, was that being good, doing the work, wasn't enough. It had to be generally acknowledged that here you were, damn well seeing to business.”

“If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you.
Kafka (note to himself in journal)”

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

“You up for it, or am I going in again? Please note, by the way, there is only one correct answer to this question.”