If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

The friend of silence comes close to God.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Think for tomorrow but act for today.