My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Turn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.