Quote of the Day (Joyce Carol Oates, on How Music is ‘The Supreme Solace’)

“Music is the supreme solace because it is so much more. It is the spiritual counterpoint to the world's cacophony, essential as a heartbeat." —Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age (2015)

(Photograph ©Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0 at the 2014 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Oct. 25, 2014.)