It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

I am very confident in preaching.