The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I persist in performing.

Faith gives Courage to the heart and Energy to the mind to make the Impossible Possible.

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.