What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.