Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

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

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.