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.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

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