Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

Er-my-nee," Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.