If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Love is the only highway to happiness.

You cannot earn $10 million. Nobody earns millions. You can rob, you can steal, or you can make $10 million in an IPO, but never earn so much. So just forget all this saving and consulting bullshit.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.