When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

Each moment presents what happens.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.