Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?