Jack Evoniuk

“In China, music’s an affair of state. And that’s how it ought to be. Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“Merlyn was a staunch conservative, which was rather progressive of him, when you reflect that he was living backwards.”
― T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

“I can’t listen to music because it makes me want to say sweet, silly things, and pat people on the head… but you have to beat people’s heads, beat them mercilessly! … What a devilishly difficult job I have.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“At least say it indirectly, that’s what you have style for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky