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It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

I love the word 'resonance.'

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often.