A writer should be joyous, an optimist... Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.

That people rejected you is not enough to make you reject yourself.

Fear of rejection is a faith in failure

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.