I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing. . . the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one.
If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.
Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest. . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.
somehow one must love the world without being worldly.