It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.

I won't cry because it came to an end, but I will smile because it happened

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.