The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.