The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.