A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

When you serve people, God will send people to bless you

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

My chains are broken in Jesus Name. Amen.

Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.