5 Quotes by Jonathan Cott

I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what book I had in my pocket, looked aghast when I pulled out a copy of Heidi or Finn Family Moomintroll, I soon realized that my then-present condition of "second childhood" was not one of senility and depression but of renewal and awakening.

Se você fica sabendo de uma coisa — e isso é uma lei natural —, não pode mais não saber.

Надо ведь двигаться, перемещаться в пространстве. Я не смогла бы год или даже десять месяцев в году жить только в Нью-Йорке. Эта жизнь ведь совершенно искусственная. Хотя - ну и что такого? Следует создать собственное пространство - такое, в котором господствует тишина и где много-много книг.

Sometime between four o’clock and dawn, Bernstein returned home with a hangover. At nine in the morning, he was awakened by a phone call from the Philharmonic’s associate manager who told him, “Well, this is it. You have to conduct at three o’clock. No chance of a rehearsal. You will report at a quarter of three backstage.

Bernstein observed that the composer was “born in the spring and died in the spring. In a sense, he lived his whole life in a springtime of creativity. All his music is springlike, newly budding, rooted in the familiar past, yet fresh and sharp, with that stinging, paradoxical combination of the inevitable and the unexpected.