I've seen miracles happen with sound.

There is so much more than we can see, there is so much more that we can be.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Where the mind goes the man follows.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

All you can take with you is that which you've given away.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.