Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

Truth is the summit of being

There’s always books. And the wind through trees.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.