Everybody loves this place. It is so beautiful; everybody reaches out to one another.

One of the reasons SCOPE reaches students so early is to get to them before they have to take the SAT, and it is early enough that they can recover academically or still take the courses they would need to take to get accepted into college.

It's beautiful up here,

There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for it to happen: a waiting for the horn to fluff; a waiting for the strings to become ragged; a waiting for the conductor to forget the subdivide, you know? And it's dreadful!

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.