Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.