Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

You can have, what wish for.

The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

I belong deeply to myself.