Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy, " "avenge Buffy's death, " and "don't die.

Demons are like obedient dogs

My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

You don't touch the purse. The purse is sacrosanct.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.