I have nothing to say, and I am saying 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.

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.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

She holds secretsthat would break spinesyet she carries them so well.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.