Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.

Ever since he's been a little boo-aw.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

History is the third parent.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.