Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.

The present day composer refuses to die.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Smart marketing is about help not hype.

Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.