To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

To master the piano is to master the universe.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.

The lesser you are, the more you become...

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

I never go sexy. I'm more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

Death is only perfect rest.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.