"No one can get really drunk on on a novel or a painting but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven’s Ninth, Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion or the Beatles’ White Album? He loved Mozart as much as he loved rock. He considered music a liberating force, it liberated him from lonliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out in the world to makes friends"