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.

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

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

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.