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

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

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

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

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