It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

When a lion kills a deer it does not build negative KARMA, its meant that way!!!!

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

If your job was remotely interesting, there would be a show on A&E about it.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.