In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

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

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

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.

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

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.