When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.
I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.
Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.