In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

Demand more of yourself.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.