It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

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?

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive