What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

The winter has not killed usagain!

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.