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

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.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.