Nature has different times.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Whatever you do, love everybody around you.

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.