Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.