Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.