You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.