The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

Nothing is ours except time.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.