Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

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.

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

No self is of itself alone.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.