If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I'd be damned if I let him see the tears in my eyes.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.