Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Without books, the world will be void.

The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.