If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

We become what we habitually contemplate

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.

You can always count on God to do nothing.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Time is running out for the climate

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.