The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

I grew up a nerd and now I'm a geek? I don't know.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.