The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.