The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.