Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

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

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.