All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.