Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.