Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

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

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

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

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for instance - I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don’t need sound to talk to me.