The good chair is a task one is never completely done with

A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

My hat is in the ring.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.