Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Accomplishments have no color.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.