Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

Walking on water requires feet of faith.

Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.