The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.