As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.