The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever. . . but with me it just happens.
Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.