“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Six times during my life has this tomb of my soul led me to the brink of that eternal darkness into which all men… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But I can see what has ensued. A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true. — John Williams Copy Share Image
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.' — John Williams Copy Share Image
“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
I honestly haven't done all that counting. It always feels new and a wonderful honor to receive these things. It's a fresh feeling. — John Williams Copy Share Image
