Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck me was the way in which the landscape of experimental music seemed different at different points in time, on the basis of where one was situated geographically, if one had access to live performances, and what was released at a particular time.
I plan to die at my desk.
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.