The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.