The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice.

I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

Corporations aren’t people. People are people.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

All writers are vampires.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.