Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.