“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.”

“All is unreality. Nothing is worth discussing, worth desiring.”

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”

“Art belongs to the domain of the unreal and it is only when people try to make a reality of it that it falls apart.”

“We cannot define the true meaning of the word patience without becoming impatient ourselves.”

“I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.”

“Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.”