You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.

It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch’s playing! I have always loved that about him.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

If you're not hot I don't care about you.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.